A Crossing

 

In your little boat,

stay in.

When the eagle or the raven

summons overhead

and calls you out,

don't go. In your little boat,

stay in.

 

Ever smell those mighty wings

on the threshold?

 

So calls the osprey or the falcon

to the gunwale

 

don't go. Stay in,

and come ashore, and say

 

I heard you calling me

but you are full of shit today.

 

1 hope that I

never see again

those monstrous and

ugly men

who take away the young.